Author Archive

After their last satirical masterpiece, it looks like Chris Morris and Armando Iannucci have been at it again, writing a fawning article on Peter Mandelson for Guardian Unlimited, including the line “This is not so much the rebirth as the final maturing of new Labour,” this time under the pseudonym of Derek Draper.

The article is entitled ‘Mandelson is back where he belongs’, a bit too obvious a reference to the title song of the Richard Gere movie ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’ :
‘Some hang on to used-to-be
Live their lives looking behind
All we have is here and now
All our lives out there to find

The road is long
There are mountains in our way
But we climb a step every day’

These guys are hilarious. Some people even believe the author is the real Derek Draper.

On another amusing note, from ‘enemies of reason’ : “Fox News, that bastion of journalistic integrity and unbiased news, is squealing like a scalded piggy because the Daily Mail, that bastion of journalistic integrity and unbiased news, has written stories that are rather similar - almost word-for-word similar.”
See Anton Vowl’s post here.

Peter Mandelson is brought back into the cabinet by Gordon Brown as Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.

Man in charge at time of the Jean Charles De Menezes killing resigns to spend more time with his pension.

Shamelessly copied, pasted and updated :
Via Chicken Yoghurt, Jennie and John we have the world’s biggest Rickroll… Vote Rick!

Read more here on BBC News.

To celebrate the forthcoming vice-presidential debate*, which will shed more light on the lady who will take over from John McCain when he pops his clogs, here is a John McCain wallpaper for your desktop.
*My prediction - Biden will cock it up as much (if not more) than Sarah Palin.

(I’ve brightened up and reduced the contrast of the earlier image I created)

John McCain Election 2008 Wallpaper - 1024×768

John McCain Election 2008 Wallpaper - 1280×1024

btw - Apologies that the site was down a bit earlier - database problems.

New image for Channel 4 News.
Update - Super large widescreen version available by clicking on the image on Channel 4 News’ website here.

Fuc*ing C(o)untry Life Butter actually.
Maybe they should rename it Rotten Butter?
See the ad here on The Guardian website.

New image later.

I must say that I really admire (and am very envious of) most of the cartoonists in the national press, but Dave Brown’s work in The Independent is consistently outstanding.
His latest in today’s paper is another prime example.
See it here - this is a link to The Indie’s latest cartoon.
When the link is out of date, page through his cartoons to find the canoe image dated 1st October and on the way take in his most recent work (and after, page through all his past work.)
You still have time to see Dave Brown’s cartoons at The Political Cartoon Gallery in London which are part of an exhibition entitled ‘An Independent Line’ which also features work by Peter Schrank and Tim Sanders.
The exhibition ends on the 18th October.
The Political Cartoon Gallery is open 9.30am to 5.30pm Monday to Friday and 11.30am to 5.30pm on Saturday.
Phone 0207 580 1114 for further details.